Chuck Jones Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Chuck Jones Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Chuck Jones Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Chuck Jones

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Chuck Jones

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Chuck Jones

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Chuck Jones

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Chuck Jones

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

Chuck Jones

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Chuck Jones

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Chuck Jones

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Chuck Jones

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

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Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Chuck Jones

There’s only one test of a great children‘s book, or a great children’s film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children’s film, or a great children’s book.

Chuck Jones

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

Chuck Jones